That Vanderbilt game still pisses me off. 3 losses to Clemson, Missouri and Auburn are understandable. Clemson was very good and we were on the road, Missouri ended up being very good, and Auburn is what it is. We had them beat but shit happens. We had too many injuries and were too young in the secondary to be a great team ourselves.

However, the Vandy game was robbed from us by horrible officiating. It shouldn’t have been as close as it was but damn if we weren’t fucked in that game.

As badly as we played, the officiating was the reason that was an L. I know it shouldn’t have been that close to allow those calls to change the outcome but where does it say we have to overcome incompetence several times a year? The outcry to the SEC office should come from all teams as no one knows what to expect week to week and their seems to be no urgency to address the situation. This isn’t a random occurrence and the badly missed calls are visible in every game. We all expect excellence/perfection from our coaches and players yet give a pass to something that can be easily corrected. Between training for consistency, officials getting together for discussions, and actually using the benefit of replay, there is just no excuse for horrendous missed calls in every game. Vandy game will serve as the “what not to call” on targeting, and we got burned twice in that one game….one the CLEAR game winner on a flag thrown from the official furthest from the action.

A&M has only brought viewers because of Manziel. Once he’s gone, assuming they don’t have another player who becomes the most compelling player in the sport, they won’t be as interesting or draw as many viewers. The tune-in factor has been because of him.

I don’t know about that, Newt. Texas is a state rich in talent and TAM is the only program that can boast of being in the SEC….Kids get it that the SEC is the premier conference. I say they’ll recruit better than we can hope and will, after a post-Manziel lag, build a hell of a program. And Missouri is on the NW corner of the SEC region…everthing to the north and west of them will be their home recruiting territory (for kids interested in playing in the SEC, that is). Things have changed and will never be the same again.

Not as much as the SEC network will, assuming the cable companies here offer it (which is where aTm comes in). But that works for nearly all of the SEC, not just UGA. LSU could be the net loser as far as an SEC team mining Texas more than any other pre-expansion.

I don’t know. But if the answer is “yes” then how much easier will it be for the rest of the SEC to recruit in TX? I think TAM is the big winner here. They’ll never get all of Texas’ best, but they’ll get a better share than ever before.